Middle Grade
5 books, newest first
After a catfishing scandal rocks their Oakland school, screen-hooked Celi and Elio are each sent to rural Mexico for a summer unplugged, where healer aunts, a river restoration project, and each other slowly pull them back to themselves.
Thirteen-year-old eighth grader Elio falls hard for his first love and then faces heartbreak, while puberty, family pressure and conflicting messages about masculinity leave him questioning what kind of man he wants to become.
In 1965 Delano, California, twelve-year-old Lula, the quiet daughter of a Mexican American farmworking family, faces hardship at home as Filipino and Mexican workers strike the grape fields. As organizers like Dolores Huerta call for change, Lula searches for her own voice.
Fourth grader Betita loves making picture poems. Her life in Los Angeles falls apart when ICE detains her father, and she and her pregnant mother end up in a family detention center.
Celi dreads getting her first period and the traditional moon ceremony her mother is planning. Meanwhile, her best friend Mar is exploring a genderfluid identity, and peer pressure strains their friendship.